By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

You ought to stop everything and write the sacred-words as its flashes in your mind.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.

The Bible says that in the last days, there would be false teachers. And, it also says that in the End Times that... there would be an apostasy.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.